Maybe it was just that I watched it on NBC's website rather than in real time on NBC, but the latest episode of The Office felt sort of incomplete.

Granted, I didn't expect Toby and Michael to resolve their differences -- Michael's seething hatred of Toby is one of my favorite running gags -- but when the show ended at the 21 minute mark, I felt like something else needed to happen.

And I wish they'd give Jim and Pam a storyline that doesn't involve throwing some sort of false tension into their relationship every week. Aside from those complaints though, I liked the way the episode began (although I wasn't keen on Michael's plan to frame Toby by planting "marijuana" -- actually some salad sold to him by the Vance Refrigeration warehouse guys -- at his desk), with Michael's horror at discovering his nemesis is back.

And I mean real horror, of the "Oh god, oh god no!" variety. Michael actually compares himself to Neve Campbell in Scream 2, discovering the killer she thought she left behind has returned. In this case, it's that "evil snail," Toby. (The snail part is sort of apt, as Toby is extremely unassuming.) I've said before that Michael's hatred of Toby is irrational, but it really isn't: in the past Toby has consistently foiled a lot of the -- highly inappropriate -- things Michael would like to do. And now he's replaced Holly, who Michael is still carrying a torch for.

Incidentally, this episode showed again little respect Michael gets within Dunder Mifflin. Not only does no one tell him Toby is back -- of course, he managed to miss that himself -- but we learn that no one calls him back unless he puts "911" in his pages.

Other things I liked:

Dwight's history of framing animals: he framed a raccoon for opening Christmas presents -- the Schrutes celebrated Christmas? -- and a bear for eating out of the trash.

Ryan breaking up with Kelly, explaining he was going to Thailand "with some friends from high school...well, a high school." This might be BJ Novak's last episode for awhile; he's leaving the show temporarily to film the next Quentin Tarantino movie.

Another Dwight moment: his "perfect crime," which involved stealing the chandelier from Tiffany's, and then seducing Tiffany herself, then fleeing to Canada, hiding out for 30 years, going to Berlin...where he'd have stashed the chandelier.